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The time of 'orchestral' instruments as the only instruments for music making, and thus a specialty of trained musicians, is passed.
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The results of this design philosophy are instruments which work well within a specific class of interactions and their sounding responses.
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Our need for this framework stems from the desire to design and build new instruments for musical expression.
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The results of a questionnaire based on traditional motivational measurement instruments were put through factor analysis to determine the interrelationship of the questionnaire items.
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Initiated the first world-wide network of seismological stations with his accurate recording instruments.
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The last could well be what a thirteenth-century author would understand, anxious to show instruments in church as having papal blessing.
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They were four singers who could also dance, but they played no instruments.
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The intra-class correlation was good for both instruments.
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Fourthly, although the same set of standardized instruments were used across all sites, quality of data collection might have varied.
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However, the instruments used here were more practicable because of time constraints in the general medical settings.
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Is it possible to increase the accuracy of our diagnostic instruments ?
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Both these instruments have been used to determine the range of behaviours associated with specific syndromes, and published data are available.
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The two following sections present characteristics of networks and instruments, respectively.
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A number of aspects of instruments can be discussed, and appropriately relevant characteristics can be derived.
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Another distinction among types of policy instruments, that between economic and judicial or regulatory mechanisms, often gives rise to a misimpression.
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Such is not the case with other instruments.
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They study how sizeable and/or long-lasting periods of fiscal budget changes alter the effects that fiscal policy instruments have on private consumption.
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First, institutions generate, nourish and maintain standard operating procedures and repertoires that serve as instruments for the handling of novel situations.
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Various schemes aim to classify governance tools or policy instruments.
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Political parties are unique instruments for the non-violent transfer of democratic political power.
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The availability of massive computing power allows programmers to implement mathematical models of conventional instruments.
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The idea is not determination to create a masterwork, but experimentation with techniques of instruments and techniques of sound.
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Clocks are envoiced throughout the work by percussion and wind instruments, even by metronome sounds at the beginning.
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In the design of modified string instruments which mimic features of natural acoustic predecessors, new technology is applied on many levels.
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I am also interested to explore the creation of a library useful for all string instruments, when the techniques are adaptable.
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Clusterweighted sampling for synthesis and cross-synthesis of violin family instruments.
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Of these instruments, olanzapine hold better results on psychopathology, relapse rates and quality of life.
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Civilians in wartime are regarded as instruments for carrying on the war rather than as 'individual persons with separate and different objectives of their own'.
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Moreover, several chapters fail to supply sample material such as data collection instruments and language data.
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The appendixes contain useful instruments that teachers can use to find out about their students' approach to language learning, motivation, and learning strategies.
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Nevertheless, some progress has been made in assessment, utilising instruments that elicit a subjective evaluation of quality of life amongst this population.
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A compulsory procurement quota and a government-set procurement price were the two major instruments to ensure the success of the planned grain purchase.
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Furthermore, they direct our attention toward the significant but previously under-explored possibility that many perceptual instruments may cooperatively employ more than one receptor type.
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The experimenter was merely a technician who controlled the instruments, whereas the subject often published the paper.
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Secondly, new sunderstanding, instruments and techniques make the application of physiological selection criteria more feasible.
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In difficult cases, where the process configuration system cannot find a solution, instruments for guiding the search by the user can be used.
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The limited availability of instruments and teachers is probably more signi®cant.
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Table 3 gives values for separate instruments in the instrumental programme.
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There also may be differences of personality emphasis required for, or brought about by, different instruments.
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Surprisingly, the boys did not articulate gender-stereotyped attitudes as strongly as their labelling may predict, nor as they had done with regard to instruments.
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There are brief sections on par ticular instruments and their problems.
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More than half asked for future practice sheets to be more speci®c to their own instruments.
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Many teachers dislike the synthesised sounds computer sound cards produce, and argue for acoustic instruments.
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The music was going up and down and in and different instruments were coming in at different times.
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They worked on keyboards and software, often in combination with acoustic instruments including -ute, clarinet and tuned percussion.
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The musical literacy offered by all the projects seeks to combine singing, reading, playing instruments, and writing music.
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Particular technical tasks relating to speci®c instruments + for example double-stopping, triple-tonguing, changing position, particular hand shapes for pianists + were frequently mentioned.
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The development of microtechnology in the 1980s affected not only the production of electronic instruments but also their application.
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In the sphere of music, electronic instruments and computers developed in ways that profoundly affected performance and composition practices.
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In addition, they describe forms of organisation that arise from movement and the structure of the instruments.
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His aim was to provide maximum acoustical difference between the instruments.
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They compare the sounds of musical instruments and other sounds that they hear and differentiate between them.
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There is material here for a good study of traditional instruments, and several texts would be sufficient in themselves.
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Arranged in seven 'modules', each of which contains three chapters, the book introduces students to the big musical concepts such as sounds, instruments and textures.
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Then groups of young people played instruments informally, chatted, exchanged, toured the school, played basketball and generally and genuinely interacted.
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The same measuring instruments were applied and a questionnaire was also designed to collect data on students' experiences in the host environment.
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In its detail, however, the government's strategy was a mixture of libertarian economic ideology and inherited policy instruments.
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Through the process of ratification these instruments prompt national action and the passage of national laws.
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The more sophisticated the technology becomes, however, the more alienated the instruments of the hand become from the sentiments of the heart.
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She then looks at the actors, instruments, legal bases and decision-making procedures in each issue-area.
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The remaining instruments register neither ownership nor credit, and are not examined further.
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Patenting continued and included the patenting of musical instruments and, as we show here, patenting of games to teach aspects of music.
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Put instruments you used to play in brackets.
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His father played the accordion too, '... a few waltzes and so on' and his brothers played a variety of instruments.
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Many of these things were considered by many music leaders to be remote legislative instruments which had little relevance for their own work.
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I have used many of her evaluative instruments in my own research, as have countless others.
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We do not sterilize surgical instruments as a precautionary measure, as we know that an infection is rather probable if we use unclean instruments.
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The instruments analysed are transfers of game meat from managed harvest and money transfers from wildlife tourism.
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Despite these interrelations, an optimal allocation can be determined and implemented as a spatial market equilibrium with the help of three policy instruments.
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Because these are new instruments we discuss their development and psychometric properties in some detail.
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Of course, this is the economists' theory of economic policy: generally speaking, we have to match the number of instruments with the number of targets.
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We focus on the command optimum for convenience due to the large number of instruments available to the planner.
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In the high-level tax scenario, the value of each of the instruments is increased by 50 per cent compared with every-year calculated optimal value.
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Already, this has opened the way in some countries for greater resort to public opinion and purchasing power as instruments of environmental policy.
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Unlike satellite mobility estimations, however, there is a distinct difference with the variables used as instruments for livestock holdings.
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How does transition affect the choice of instruments?
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Here one has a whole spectrum of subsidy instruments to choose from.
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Other environmental funds (above the municipality level) apply a variety of instruments which makes the ranking of projects difficult even when grouped into narrow categories.
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In the first sentence everything is semantically plural, and in the second if the interest is tax-free so probably are the instruments themselves.
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Rather than specific instruments, these engravings represent concepts.
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His enumeration combines instruments that modern organology would classify as lyres (lyra, barbiton) and as harps (psalterium, pectis).
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Isidore mentions this amongst the wind instruments, but it is hard to determine what he is talking about.
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At 36 months of age, children's social behaviors were assessed by way of a series of teacher repor t instruments.
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Contemporary instruments for assessing early temperament by questionnaire and in the laboratory.
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After the focus groups' revisions were incorporated into the instruments, the protocol was pilot tested on 16 families, 8 from each site.
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Various instruments have been developed to assess tinnitus severity.
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A standard set of instruments for the diagnosis of dementia is used throughout.
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Three others were consistent only in the forms they used for instruments: two relied on compounds and one on -er.
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Whether the preferences were due to the instruments, size or lower pitch remains unclear.
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Twenty-nine teachers further comment that again, more girls than boys play instruments, often outnumbering boys by 2: 1 and in many cases significantly more.
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The speculative instruments were brought to bear on the inadequacy of intellectual discipline and reading powers.
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Words are powerful instruments in the social construction of reality, but probably even more powerful are numbers.
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Tests constructed through continuous collaboration/data collection are, purportedly, the most effective instruments of instructional change.
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Many savings apply to electricity consumption, whether for lighting, instruments and other equipment, for ventilation, and even heating.
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The research instruments did not cover participants' attitudes towards the healthcare system, their healthcare providers, or the research staff involved in this study.
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To him the statement implied that screening instruments should be evaluated only as a component of protocols that provide interventions.
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The instruments for changing behaviour show an adapted regularity which suggests that they themselves have been subject to natural selection during the course of evolution.
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The musical instruments symbolize an underlying harmony behind nature's powers, to which the successful alchemist must himself be attuned.
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The third has been the provision of an ever-increasing variety of financial instruments needed to support the growing complexity of cross-border transactions.
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In the case of fiscal policy the major instruments are changes in tax rates and allowances, and variations in expenditure plans.
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to make problems, difficulties, or disagreements less serious or easier to solve, usually by talking to the people involved
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